A 51-year-old man is dead after federal agents opened fire once again on the streets of Minneapolis on Saturday morning.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, the deceased man was an “illegal alien wanted for violent assault” who was in possession of a 9mm handgun when he was approached by agents. The agency claims the man intended to “massacre law enforcement.”
The shooting is described as “defensive,” according to DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin.
In an earlier message confirming the shooting, Gov. Tim Walz called it “horrific.”
“I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now,” Walz said in a tweet.
The man died as a result of the shooting, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara later confirmed. This incident marks the latest escalation in tension between communities in the city and federal agents acting on behalf of the Department of Homeland Security in the wake of the shooting death of Renee Good earlier this month. She was 37 years old.
Officials in the city had earlier alluded to the social media report around the incident.
“We are aware of reports of another shooting involving federal law enforcement in the area of 26th Street W and Nicollet Ave,” officials wrote on X. “We are working to confirm additional details. We ask the public to remain calm and avoid the immediate area.”
Video of the shooting shows a group of agents wrestling with a man on a city street before at least ten shots are fired. The circumstances that led up to the shooting are unknown at this point.
The Minnesota Star-Tribune reports that the man was shot in the chest and has been rushed to a nearby hospital.
Fox News’ Bill Melugin tweeted that a Department of Homeland Security source said that the suspect was armed. Melguin then posted a picture of a handgun in a car seat that allegedly belonged to the wounded man.
After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them “cowards” and telling them to go home. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: “Boo hoo.” Agents elsewhere shoved a yelling protester into a car.
The intersection where the shooting has been blocked off, and Border Patrol agents are on the scene, wielding batons.
It’s estimated that more than 2,000 federal agents are scouring the streets of Minneapolis-St. Paul, for immigrants to detain, and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reports more than 3,000 arrests since early December, residents have organized to monitor, disrupt, and protest the crackdown in the streets.
On Friday, Police arrested about 100 clergy demonstrating against immigration enforcement at Minnesota’s largest airport, and several thousand gathered in downtown Minneapolis despite Arctic temperatures to protest the Trump administration’s crackdown.
The protests were part of a broader movement against President Donald Trump’s increased immigration enforcement across the state, with labor unions, progressive organizations and clergy urging Minnesotans to stay away from work, school and even shops. The faith leaders gathered at the airport to protest deportation flights and urge airlines to call for an end to to what the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest-ever immigration enforcement operation.
The clergy were issued misdemeanor citations of trespassing and failure to comply with a peace officer and were then released, said Jeff Lea, a Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman. They were arrested outside the main terminal at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport because they went beyond the reach of their permit for demonstrating and disrupting airline operations, he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
